Kazakhtelecom (Kazakhstan) rewards millionth Megaline user

/KASE, June 11, 12/ - JSC "Kazakhtelecom" (Astana), whose securities are officially listed at Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has provided KASE with the following press-release of June 11, 2012: quote Celebration of the millionth user of the Megaline broadband access took place in Almaty. The fact of customers' connecting to Megaline is registered by the company's single billing system after the customer's logging in by way of dialing a 12-digit code and the first successful connection to the Internet. The millionth customer, Tynyshgul Dyusenbaeva, a mother of many children, connected under "Megaline Turbo Plus" tariff package (TP) in April this year was determined after a thorough check of registration. Together with the millionth customer the first Megaline user was invited to the ceremony. According to Kazakhtelecom's republican billing system, his name is Sergei Slukhaevskiy, he is from Petropavlovsk. As Kazakhtelecom's CEO, Kuanyshbek Esekeev, put it, connecting a million of customers became possible thanks to concentration on customer needs. "The program of service management implemented in the company, continuous measures aimed at increasing the attractiveness of our services, enables us to remain a leader amongst operators and keep moving forward with confidence", - pointed out Esekeev making a speech at the award ceremony. JSC "Kazakhtelecom" rewarded the first and the millionth customers with Megaline Turbo one year free use certificates, sets of household appliances and tickets for all family members to Disneyland (France). The new service from Kazakhtelecom was for the first time announced in May 2005 at the annual industrial fair KITEL; from June 1 the company introduced experimental tariffs on the ADLS-based Internet-access service introducing the Megaline service in three pilot zones at once: Almaty, Karagandy and Petropavlovsk. In the first year of the new service on the market 25,333 customers connected to various Megaline tariff packages. Further Megaline's customer base was increasing by 200,000 people a year on average. Currently, the largest number of ports is in Almaty - 204,966, Karagandy region - 109,836 and East Kazakhstan region - 80 977. Public relations service JSC "Kazakhtelecom" unquote [2012-06-11]